{"id":485,"date":"2007-09-19T15:18:54","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T15:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/19\/the-mornings-introduction\/"},"modified":"2013-05-01T00:40:24","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T00:40:24","slug":"the-mornings-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/19\/the-mornings-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"the morning&#8217;s introduction&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m Buffy and I grew up in way-back Appalachia &#8211; not exactly <strong>on<\/strong> Walton&#8217;s Mountain, but not far from it either.  I came to the UK in 98 as a postgrad.  Plan was to leave after a year.  Plans change.  If you look real hard you can find me in X and Y.<\/p>\n<p>I used to study victimology.  Offender profiling.  All the stuff those CSI-type shows try to be.  Worked around it.  Hung out in the middle of it.  And walked away from it because, why waste time doing something you loathe &#8211; or something that loathes you &#8211; when you could be doing something you love.  Now I&#8217;m a struggling writer.  Of a sort.  I work part time for X because I like things like food and <em>roofs<\/em>.  If it were up to me, and money grew on trees, I&#8217;d do nothing but read.  And write.   And eat Cheetos.<\/p>\n<p>I was never a big contemporary fiction fan.  Until last year.  I had the opportunity to attend a lecture given by a certain British novelist.  Picked up &#8216;On Beauty&#8217; because I had to and &#8216;Atonement&#8217; because I wanted to.  Now, here I am&#8230;<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/04\/i-love-comments\/\">Comments<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m Buffy and I grew up in way-back Appalachia &#8211; not exactly on Walton&#8217;s Mountain, but not far from it either. I came to the UK in 98 as a postgrad. Plan was to leave after a year. Plans change. If you look real hard you can find me in X and Y. I used<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5367,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/5367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}